Microchurches 93. Community - Ecclesiology Expounded Series Ep. 2 with Brian Sanders
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Jan 28, 2026 Brian Sanders, microchurch leader and teacher focused on ecclesiology and small church practice, unpacks biblical community as koinonia. He contrasts transient groups with lasting spiritual family. He outlines three essentials: confession, covenant, and co-labor. He describes how articulated covenants, shared creed, and regular rhythms sustain deep communal life.
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Community Is Family Not Just Friendship
- Biblical community is closer to family than friendship, because family implies permanency not transience.
- Brian Sanders contrasts temporary 'community' like Friends with covenantal 'family' that offers permanency and belonging for fostered or adopted people.
Threefold Shape Of Christian Community
- Christian community is the overlap of three things: confession, covenant, and co-labor.
- Brian Sanders says only when those three overlap do you experience the family of God rather than a loose social group.
Create Rhythms To Live Your Covenant
- Do practice shared rhythms of life and action so covenantal promises become lived reality.
- Sanders recommends regular gatherings for worship, learning, prayer or mission so people actually see and serve together.